This paper examines the evolution of the use of economics in EC competition policy matters and the reforms in the use of economics that occurred in the latter part of EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti's term (1999-2004). Under his predecessors, the use of economics had been steadily...

This paper examines the evolution of the use of economics in EC competition policy matters and the reforms in the use of economics that occurred in the latter part of EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti’s term (1999-2004).

This article serves two purposes, (i) to introduce “The Comparative Order and its Implementation,†a seminal article published in 1949 by Walter Eucken, ordoliberalism’s, or the “Freiburg School’s,†most...

Without stating that it would be the most important, or even most interesting, topic touched upon by the Draft Remedies Notice, this article will focus on the burden of proof for the effectiveness of remedies proposed by the merging parties.

Whilst the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (“CFIâ€Â) had held the Commission accountable for a lack of attention to detail in a number of circumstances, in the European Court of Justice’s (“ECJâ€Â) decision of...